A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
